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Tri-counties - Environment Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement in effect for Yarmouth, Shelburne and Digby counties. Although Hurricane Gert will not have a direct effect on Nova Scotia, long period swell from the storm will move into the Atlantic Coast of Nova Scotia on Wednesday and will persist into Thursday.

YARMOUTH, N.S. – Finding themselves in a catch-22 situation – and a very expensive one at that – the municipal units that operate the Yarmouth airport have decided to voluntarily change the facility’s certification.

WEDGEPORT -- Inclement weather prompted organizers of a special event in Wedgeport to move their activities – or at least most of them – indoors, but they still got to unveil a couple of new monuments, one honouring a fallen soldier, the other recognizing Wedgeport’s 250th anniversary.

YARMOUTH, N.S. –An issue that surfaced Monday with another of The Cat’s engines has led to cancellations of some ferry crossings between Maine and Nova Scotia as Bay Ferries works to immediately diagnosis and address the problem.

DELAPS COVE, NS - Tucked away on the North Mountain, above Port Royal and on the shores of the Bay of Fundy, is an area called Delaps Cove. The Annapolis community is home to a few family-friendly hiking trails that are worth exploring.

Ah, language — I spend most of my days wrapped up in it, struggling to find the best way to communicate. Trying to find a lexicon plain enough to be widely understood, yet particular and detailed enough to make subtle, careful distinctions between things.

This week, the Canadian Centre for Health Information complied information for CBC News that spells out that provincial governments in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador spent $52 million on opioid prescriptions in the five years between 2010 and 2015.